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We are greatly saddened to learn that Professor Sir Sam Edwards has passed away aged 87. Sir Sam, a member of BSS for many years, was a leading physicist and one of the founding fathers of soft matter physics. We fondly remember his kindness, generosity, wit and wisdom.Athene has written an article in the Guardian and blog entry remembering Sir Sam…

Athene is on the panel that will be discussing the The Science of Glass on Melvin Bragg's In Our Time on Radio 4, first broadcast this Thursday at 9am.

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance.The group of Dr Ulrich Keyser, as part of the Biological and Soft Systems (BSS) Sector of the Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, invite applications for a postdoctoral Research Associate to work on characterising novel, artificial, lipid-membrane based …

The IoP will host a one day meeting on the Physics of Microorganisms on the 23rd of March 2015. Lots of great speakers, including Eric Lauga from DAMTP and BSS's own Otti Croze. The poster abstract deadline has been extended to Wednesday 4th of February. We hope to see you there!

Volume and porosity thermal regulation in lipid mesophases by coupling mobile ligands to soft membranesLucia Parolini, Bortolo M. Mognetti, Jurij Kotar, Erika Eiser, Pietro Cicuta, and Lorenzo Di Michele Nature Communications6:5948 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms6948

The BSS PhD student Kerstin Göpfrich from Dr. Ulrich Keyser's group won the price for the best talk prize at the Cavendish Graduate Students Conference. Her talk was about DNA origami and the creation of artificial ion channels. Congratulations!

Our PhD student, Weichao Zhai, has entered the Cambridge University Enterprise 100 words for £100 competition and was selected together with her team as the technology track winner. The team's entry is based her work in BSS on using microfluidic device for analysing malaria infected red blood cells.

 Dr Sarah Bohndiek from the Cancer Research UK Institute at the University of Cambridge, was announced last night as the winner of the WISE Research Award, sponsored by the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Wellcome Trust, for using physics and engineering to develop tools for early cancer detection.  http://www.wisecampaign.org.uk/…

 Sarah received one of the 2014 MRC Suffrage Science Heirloom awards, a bespoke brooch designed to be passed down through generations of female scientists.Sarah was nominated by Dr Elizabeth Murchison “Not only for her world-leading research, technical expertise and contagious enthusiasm about science, but also because of her generosity in supporti…

A warm welcome to the new PhD students joining our group:Victor Allard and Maria Panlilo (Citcuta group)Vijaya Duvvuri (Keyesr group)Michal Tomas

The new website for the Biological and Soft Systems (BSS) group launched today. We hope you like it!

Once again, the BSS exhibit prepared for "Physics at Work" (the annual outreach event for schoolchildren) has been voted as the best in the department! Congratulations and well done to everyone who put their effort and time into this, and a special thanks to Lorenzo Di Michele for coordinating it all. Pietro.

Controlled thermal oxidative crosslinking of polymers of intrinsic microporosity towards tunable molecular sieve membranesQilei Song, Shuai Cao, Robyn H Pritchard, Behnam Ghalei, Shaheen A Al-Muhtaseb, Eugene M Terentjev, Anthony K Cheetham, Easan SivaniahNature Communications5 2014

The work of BSS PhD student Lucia Parolini has been recognised with the Poster Prize (and 200 euros!) at the EPS Liquid Matter conference in Lisbon last July - congratulations!